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811.
by padjo 4y ago
Always disappoints me when people who advocate for ending daylight saving are completely unaware that it was tried in Britain not long ago and generally hated.
812.
by padjo 4y ago
Yeah it’s almost like moderation is a really hard problem that requires serious people to think deeply about it, not something that can be solved with vague platitudes about freedom.
813.
by padjo 4y ago
I dunno, I used to work in PHP and I came to really loathe all the $ and ->. Like I get it’s just aesthetics but it bothered me how unnecessary they are.
814.
by padjo 4y ago
Who is this article pitched at? It seems to veer from explaining very basic things to assuming advanced knowledge and ultimately winds up saying that the fundamental layer of reality is the universe, which feels pretty tautological.
815.
by padjo 4y ago
Now that we’re heading back to dumping html over the wire I look forward to the reinvigoration of the XSS attack.
816.
by padjo 4y ago
The biggest boon of JQuery back in the day was that it abstracted over all the browser variances, which were far more numerous at the time. Also many APIs simply didn’t exist(e.g. querySelector). Now that browsers are much mor standards com
817.
by padjo 4y ago
“In a major blow to America's seafood industry…” - says it all about how incredibly messed up our priorities are.
818.
by padjo 4y ago
Fun!
819.
by padjo 4y ago
Funny, I thought the basic concept was that they allow westerners to tick a box and mitigate the guilt they feel from living ludicrously unsustainable lifestyles.
820.
by padjo 4y ago
This is my problem with wireless headphones. They’re cool but basically disposable when the battery degrades, which happens fast because of the usage pattern. Seems like an awful waste, I’ve gone back to wired. They will last me decades.
821.
by padjo 4y ago
Atheism only exists in opposition so it is necessarily defined in terms of whatever theism is knocking about in the local environment. If I’m not dealing with a religious person I’m just going about my day. I’m not constantly thinking about
822.
by padjo 4y ago
Sure there were lots of devices doing subsets of the features of iPhone but the feature set and execution of the iPhone was in a completely different class. The fact that the same fundamental design still dominates 15 years later shows how
823.
by padjo 4y ago
That’s not my memory of it at all. I remember it feeling like something from the future. The massive screen, the accelerometer, the light and proximity sensors and the overall slickness of the UI were really clearly a step change. I didn’t
824.
by padjo 4y ago
Your warranty rights are effectively non existent, that’s the whole point. You’d have to be an idiot or have very deep pockets and a lot of free time to try to enforce them over a 70 dollar screwdriver
825.
by padjo 4y ago
Bravo! Subtle enough to begin with but but descends into hilarious absurdity by the end.
826.
by padjo 4y ago
I am that person and I’m very disappointed in myself for it. But the idea of someone buying twitter against their will just cracks me up. Also really punctures the visionary genius narrative.
827.
by padjo 4y ago
The EV6 looks stunning. Tesla design feels very old and boring now. Gotta be like 6 years since they updated the design right?
828.
by padjo 4y ago
Would want to be more accurate than than the current tech. Mine regularly gets confused near motorway off ramps and drops speed from 120 to 50. Implementing a max speed of 120 would be good though. It’s never legal to exceed that so why doe
829.
by padjo 4y ago
I’m definitely not saying I want the poor to stay poor! I’m saying I’d like more equality and that isn’t possible at current technology levels. I don’t buy that decreasing population would limit technological progress at all. The vast major
830.
by padjo 4y ago
> those cause the least environmental impact For now! They all want the quality of life of the rich nations and understandably so. I really doubt that the world can support 8bn people with the average US standard of living, let alone mor
831.
by padjo 4y ago
I live in a pretty representative democracy so that’s not really the problem here. At least for now anyway.
832.
by padjo 4y ago
I dislike this habit of blaming “leaders” in democratic countries. The problem is that the electorate either don’t care or won’t accept anything that might inconvenience them or require them to change their habits. Not much leaders can do
833.
by padjo 4y ago
Pointing out the good in a PR is such an important thing to do, particularly with juniors!
834.
by padjo 4y ago
Or do both!
835.
by padjo 4y ago
Oh thank you, that hasn’t been clear in reporting and clears things up a lot.
836.
by padjo 4y ago
Roberts’s concurrence essentially says that too. Honestly his concurrence reads more like a dissent to me.
837.
by padjo 4y ago
Thomas’s concurrence specifically says those precedents should be revisited.
838.
by padjo 4y ago
20 lines of JS later and yeah wow of course that’s what happens!
839.
by padjo 4y ago
Thank you, that sort of makes sense to me but is so counterintuitive that I feel I’ll have to do the simulation myself before I believe it!
840.
by padjo 4y ago
Could someone explain like I’m 5 how a random process can lead to this sort of outcome?

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